Written in Water

"Written in Water" will comprise a collection of essays authored by notable personalities in the field of water solutions and innovations - a broad range of people from varied disciplines who have contributed their hearts and minds to bringing awareness to and conserving Earth's freshwater supply. T [...]
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"Written in Water" will comprise a collection of essays authored by notable personalities in the field of water solutions and innovations - a broad range of people from varied disciplines who have contributed their hearts and minds to bringing awareness to and conserving Earth's freshwater supply. The book will continue the dialogue started in Irena Salina's award-winning documentary "Flow: For the Love of Water".Contributors include: Alexandra Cousteau - NG Emerging Explorer and founder of the Blue Campaign; Alex Mathiessen - president of Riverkeeper; Marion Stoddart - legendary environmentalist, founder of the Nashua River Clean-Up Committee, producer of "Work of 1,000"; Rajendra Singh - water conservationist, Ramon Magsaysay Award for water management of the Arvari River; Zeb Hogan - National Geographic Explorer, fish conservationist and star of the hit NGS show, "Megafish"; Melanie Stiassny - NGS Explorer and conservationist of the rich biodiversity of the Congo River; Dave Rosgen - PhD Hydrologist, "Time Magazine" Innovator for 2004, author of "River Stability Field Guide"; Christine Todd Whitman - former governor of New Jersey, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency; Sylvia Earle - NGS Explorer and Oceanographer; and, Cristina Tirado - former WHO regional food-safety adviser for Europe, now UCLA professor.The below mentioned are also contributors: Rengarajan Ramesh - General Manager, GE Water and Process Technologies; Bill Mc Kibben -Author and environmentalist; recipient of Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships; and, contributor to "The New York Times", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Harper's", "Mother Jones", "New York Review of Books", "Rolling Stone", and "Outside"; Fred Kirschenmann - Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State; Ashok Gadgil - Senior Scientist, and a Deputy Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; William Marks - Author of "The Holy Order of Water", water advocate, featured on national media, testifies before Congress; Alton Byers - The Mountain Institute, is a mountain geographer specializing in mountain protected areas; and, Kathy Robb - founder, The Water Policy Institute and attorney at Hunton and Williams.Contributors also include: Maude Barlow - Canadian author, activist, national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Blue Planet Project; Jorge Recharte - Director of The Mountain Institute in Peru, reforstation of the Andes; Anupam Mishra - longtime environmentalist, Winner of the Indira Gandhi National Environment Award, author; Lynne Cherry - author and/or illustrator of over thirty award-winning books for children; David Breashears - film maker and mountain climber, author of "High Exposure"; Scott Harrison - entrepreneur and founder of Charity: Water (supported by actor Hugh Jackman); Ellsworth Havens - Rotary International President supporting International H2O Collaboration with USAID; and, Shekhar Kapur: film director, producer: Academy Award-winning "Elizabeth" (1998), "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (2007).